2 Python Sightings Show That It’s Snake Week In Singapore

Pythons here, there, everywhere

Is the supposed Yishun curse spreading? It seems like it, now that a Sembawang resident was involved in a freak accident with a python.

On Tuesday (Oct 9) morning, Mrs Chan Yin Ha was looking for her cat on the 2nd floor of the HDB block that she lives in. Mrs Chan lives with her family on the 3rd floor.

As she hunted for the cat among a row of potted plants, she felt a sudden sharp pain in her left leg.

Looking down, she saw that a 3m-long python had bitten her.

She told The Straits Times that she “freaked out” and was terrified. She added,

I thought it would coil around me.

The snake didn’t pursue Mrs Chan and she went back home, bleeding profusely. Her family called an ambulance and she was sent to Khoo Teck Puat Hospital. She has since been discharged and is on 4 days MC.

Pythons are not venomous but can give a nasty bite with their long, sharp teeth.

Meanwhile, a neighbour alerted the police to the python. They found that the python had retreated into a water pipe. A pest control agency later arrived and poured hot water into the pipe, forcing the snake out.

It then fled into a drain on the ground floor, where it was caught. No news on where it has been released to though.

In case you were wondering, Mrs Chan’s beloved kitty is safe.

Polyclinic python

Just a day before, another python was spotted near Punggol Polyclinic.